Improvement in bill-files



' tnit'ml 5mm admi c. W. BOND, or Binnnronn'iuamn. AssIeNoa To HiMsELF AND JOHN A. GOULD, or SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 83,908, dated November 10, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILL-FILES.

To all 'whom it may coi-ccm:

I Be itknown that l, O. W. BOND, of the town of Biddeford, county of York, and State of Maine, have invented' a new and improved Bill-File, and I do hereby declare that the4 following is a full, clear, andexact description of Athe saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part oi' this speciiication, in Which- Figures l, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are perspective views of my bill-file? p V My invention consists in making a bill-le which willicombine the advantages of an alphabetical arrangement and separation of the bills, indexed leaves, and elastiebands, Or other suitable fastenings.

Many persons are obliged to carry about in onev package a number of bills, which are usually placed between two covers Without any regular arrangement, and much time is lost in looking over the collection to select any particular bill. My invention makes a billiile of a number of pieces of card-board or erasive board, which are eut and lettered in the usual man ner for indexes, and between which are placed the bills in alphabetical arrangement, according to the letteis upon the card-board. The indexed card-board is also useful for making notes of the bills, showing which have been plaeed in the book, which paid,- &. A

l construct my bill-file as shown ings. l, 2, 3, 4, and Where separate cards, A, enclosed between two covers, B, are connected together and withthe covers by an elastic, a, passing. through the covers and cards, and so arranged that it can pass around and compress the Whole.v I prefer to make the inside of the covers erasable tablets for memoranda.

What claim as inynvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-

The arrangement of the` separate cards A., covers B,

and elastic straps a, in the manner described, Substan' tially as and for the purpose specified.

C. W. BOND. Witnesses: SETE: C. LANE,

GEO. W. WATSON. 

